Meyers Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Meyers Farmstead Historic District, also known as the Jacob E. and Amanda Meyers Farm and the John B. and Ella Meyers Farm, is an agricultural historic district located in Lisbon, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”
Wikipedia article Meyers Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 300 West Market St., Lisbon, 52253
When was it listed? February 2021
Category. district
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 100006183 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Meyers Farmstead Historic District between 2010 and 2015, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1750 YEISLEY RD., LINN TWP, IOWA
20 March 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 January 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meyers Farmstead Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ivanhoe Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lisbon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mc Cune Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2006	Hail	Lisbon	$2,000	Spotter reported 3 stones per square foot.
April 2006	Hail	Lisbon	$1,000	Also reported by amateur radio; dime to quarter size hail from Lisbon to the Linn/Cedar county line.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	A lilac tree was reported blown down. The time was based on radar data.
May 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Lisbon	-	A trained spotter reported a tornado north of Sutliff in far southeast Linn County. Public video also showed a tornado south and east of Mechanicsville, IA. There was no known damage to assign a rating, so the tornado is classified as an EF-Unknown.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	A trained spotter reported 6 inch diameter trees down at this location.
August 2022	Funnel Cloud	Lisbon	-	Fire Department reported that a funnel cloud was sighted near Lisbon.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	Trees down on power lines in the town of Lisbon.
May 1997	Tornado (F1)	Lisbon	-	Tornado passed across open country along highway 30.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Lisbon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lisbon Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2019
Harrison Stuckslager House	0.3 miles	1979
Lisbon Methodist Church	0.3 miles	2016
Waln, Elijah D. and Mary J. (Adams), House	1.2 miles	2020
Robinson, George W. and Mary J. (Maxwell), House	1.2 miles	2020
McCartney, James H. and Mayetta (Degrush), House	1.4 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006183 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 121 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.